Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Groceries Sector: Discussion with Musgrave Group and Tesco

3:45 pm

Mr. Ian Allen:

The consumer decides on the products we put on our shelves. Where possible, our policy would be that if we can deliver what the consumer wants through Irish, that is first and foremost what we will do. A number of factors have to be taken into account when a product is listed and put onto a shelf. There is their ability to produce - can they supply to the SuperValu or Centra store within the locality or can they go regional or national? We work to our supplier development programme and in all of those arenas we work with suppliers who can work in clusters or extend into a national producer. I am not familiar with the example the Senator has given, I am sure we can take that back and have a look at it.

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